Principal Application Software Engineer

hackajob is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role within the Oracle Health Data Intelligence organization. This team builds and operates the data processing and intelligence platforms powering Oracle Health applications, national healthcare systems, and health analytics products for over 500 million patients worldwide.

The Agentic Apps-HAIDP & RES team owns a broad, business-critical portfolio, including Health AI Data Platform capabilities, Rules Execution Service, Federal VA initiatives, Disaster Recovery, new Federal OCI regional builds, Medical Device and regulatory readiness, RES enhancements, and the Agentic AI Data Platform roadmap. Over the next 18 months, the team will expand its scope across platform modernization, Federal VA delivery, OnPrem to OC3 migration, VA Fed DR development, regional build support, modular AI-first architecture, regulatory scope reduction, EHR workflow integration, and delivery of AI Agent Health capabilities into FY27 and beyond.

About the role

This role requires engineers who can take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems; understand platform, customer, and operational impact; collaborate across teams; and drive work from design through implementation, validation, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Participate and contribute to design discussions to build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
• Implement and build cloud services on top of modern OCI infrastructure.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, quality assurance, and production.
• Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure a high software quality bar.
• Optimize data processing pipelines to improve throughput and latency.
• Leverage industry-leading OCI tools to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• Experience with distributed data processing systems (e.g., Hadoop, Kafka).
• Hands-on experience writing code with modern procedural programming languages such as Java and Python.
• Good understanding of design concepts and ability to design software components in a distributed system.
• Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated competence as a technical lead of a non-trivial SaaS/IaaS project spanning multiple functional areas, involving up to 10 engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with production operations including deployment, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting issues.
• Experience with containerized service development and operations.
• Production experience with Cloud service providers (e.g., OCI, AWS, Azure).
• Experience partnering with managers and other stakeholders to define the technical culture and processes of software engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers.

Certain U.S.-based or U.S. customer/client-facing roles may require compliance with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing.

Pay

Hiring range in USD: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child).
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation for salaried employees; accrued vacation for others (13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; prorated for part-time employees working 20–34 hours per week).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshes annually, carries over up to 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal services.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.